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test pilot

noun

as in bush pilot

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Recent Examples of test pilot Notably, the two test pilots for the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — were once again left behind for the simple reason that they were not assigned to that specific spacecraft. —

Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft touched down on Earth early Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind in space until next year over NASA's concerns that their return was too risky. —

Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024 In movies the test pilot kicks the tires and goes, that whole romantic Chuck Yeager thing. —

J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 5 Dec. 2024 Boeing launched its first crew for NASA in June, but the Starliner capsule encountered so many problems that the two test pilots ended up stuck at the space station. —

Marcia Dunn, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for test pilot

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In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
It was designed with the help of Alaskan bush pilot Tommy Thompson in 1952.

— Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024